Equally, smoke, sparks and other particle effects led to zero slowdown during our play sessions. Playing Wolfenstein 2 was a no-hassle joy with these ultra settings selected, with the movement and gunplay buttery smooth and the environment detailed and pin sharp. Rise of the Tomb Raider posted a healthy benchmark of 27.15 frames per second with graphical settings set to high at a resolution of 3240 x 2160, playing consistently smoothly in-game, too.Įqually, we could max out the offered resolution in Wolfenstein 2, a 16:9 aspect ratio and resolution of 2048 x 1152, as well as set the game's video quality profile to the highest level it would go, which is fittingly called 'Mein leben!'. We then threw a brace of modern AAA titles at the Surface Book 2 in the form of Rise of the Tomb Raider and Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus. Seriously, it would take the most demanding 8K video editing projects to start to trouble this hybrid. Indeed, a Geekbench 4 CPU multi-core benchmark of 13,376 and an OpenCL score of 123,942 shows you that the internal hardware in the Surface Book 2 can literally handle anything you could feasibly throw at it on a day-to-day basis and it would just crush it. This leads to a blisteringly fast general user experience on the Surface Book 2 and, in partnership with system's 16GB of RAM, means serious photo and video editing capabilities. This is a seriously proper gaming GPU and, as we will see, it offers serious gaming performance.Įlsewhere, the max specced Intel Skylake i7-6600U dual-core processor of the original system, is now jacked up to the quad-core Coffee Lake Intel Core i7-8650U.

For example, the 1GB GeForce 940M GPU of the original Surface Book has had rockets strapped to its feet and exploded in power up to the Surface Book 2's 6GB GeForce GTX 1060.

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